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Dr.
Susanne Schmitt

Visiting Scholar

Susanne Schmitt is a social and cultural anthropologist interested in design, emotion, atmosphere, and multispecies ethnography. She studied in Heidelberg, Munich, Portland (USA), Shanghai, Loughborough (UK), and Amsterdam and holds a PhD and MA from the Ludwig Maximilian University. Her work is strongly informed by sensory ethnography and the anthropology of the senses; she has explored a medical museum as a workplace and site of contested ideas about sensory exhibition making and pedagogy. Susanne has been a research associate at the department of sociology in Ludwig Maximilian University and as a scholar-in-residence at the Sense Lab in Montreal, Canada. At the RCC she is working on her installation-based and ethnographic project entitled "Decorative Ecologies,"which explores the transnational aquarium design scene and ways of living with sub-aquatic forms of life at home. In addition to her academic work, Susanne works in artistic collaboration, exhibition making, and design ethnography/consulting.